Ingram Micro confirms ransomware attack
Ingram Micro, a large technology distributor, said the company has been hit with a ransomware attack that took down its systems.
Ingram Micro, a large technology distributor, said the company has been hit with a ransomware attack that took down its systems.
The AI agents are marching in on the RSA Conference as CrowdStrike launched a set of agents to its Charlotte AI platform. Google Cloud, Cisco, SentinelOne, IBM and a bevy of others made RSAC related announcements.
Palo Alto Networks acquired Protect AI to expand its reach into securing AI and machine learning applications, launched Prisma AIRS to secure enterprise AI apps, agents and models and updated its Cortex securities operations platform.
Rubrik hammered home how enterprises are focusing more on cyber resilience. During Rubrik's conference call, cyber resilience was mentioned 30 times.
CrowdStrike reported a better-than-expected third quarter results and said it retained 97% of customers as it moved past its July outage.
Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected first quarter results and said that it is benefiting from enterprises looking to consolidate cybersecurity vendors. Palo Alto Networks focused on a "platformization" strategy designed to land more wallet share on its platform.
CrowdStrike said it will acquire Adaptive Shield, a company focused on software-as-a-service security. The company said Adaptive Shield will be integrated into its Falcon platform.
Nvidia has had a steady stream of NIM Agent Blueprint news as it aims to make agentic AI more commonplace in enterprises.
The parade of cybersecurity vendors looking to capitalize on the CrowdStrike and Microsoft outages has gone by, but it's unclear whether enterprises will be able to have both resiliency and vendor consolidation.
The company, known for its Zero Trust Exchange platform, is among the cybersecurity leaders and in the middle of the platformization debate that has been dented by the CrowdStrike outage.
CrowdStrike said it will take a $30 million subscription revenue impact for the third quarter and each of the remaining fiscal quarters in the fiscal year due to its recent outage. Fiscal 2025 revenue guidance “includes an estimated impact in the high-single digit millions to professional services revenue in the second half of fiscal year 2025.”
"I know there was significant consternation around our platformization guarantee six months ago," said Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora. "All I want to say is, I wish it started down that path sooner."